Here's The Tiny Village Where China Dumps Thousands Of Tons Of Electronic Garbage [PHOTOS]http://www.businessinsider.com/china-electronic-waste-town-photos-2014-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:22:38 -0500Harrison Jacobshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/5395adf9eab8ea314be61437LET ME EXPLAINMon, 09 Jun 2014 08:52:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5395adf9eab8ea314be61437
I spoke to a e-waste recycling center earlier this year regarding the practice of off-shoring our national e-waste. She told me that the majority of e-waste collection sites and corporations merely sell their e-waste to often unethical 3rd party exporters who ship thousands of containers to Asia and Africa rather than properly de-manufacture the refuse as imagined by consumers. As the global demand for electronics increases, more and more will end up in NIMBY Asian and African cesspools. Intentional obsolescence of e-gear is allowing a-moral corporations to transfer the environmental costs to the public realm.
Here is a PBS Frontline 30 min video of the problem back in 2009. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/ghana804/video/video_index.html</a>
Since then a billion more cellphones have been improperly disposed. That doesn't include all the obsolete computer waste. Privatizing profits and socializing costs. What a great business plan.
Isn't this a form of welfare?